In reply to Jonny2vests:
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> I used to go midweek a lot during the day, and have often been part of a mass exodus, literally running away while frothing at the mouth in desperation. Maybe you're just harder than me.
I would quite often drive up to Stanage to find the place absolutely deserted on a hot, still summer evening. If I bothered to get out of the car, it would soon become clear why there was no one on the crag, the air darkening in the think clouds of midges. At worst, the air could reach 40% midge; the density of midges would become so high that they were actually joining together to form super-midges, and those in turn joining to form mega-midges.
Under these circumstances I too would retreat to Stoney.